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American Studies

Tye Barret
Sponsor: Dr. Doug Ferdon

"Don't Forget the Boots: Exploring the Importance of Cowboy Boots
in Cormac McCarthy's Southwestern Works"
Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/ACA Conference
Albuquerque, New Mexico. February 10-13, 2010.

Biology

Tracy Carter
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Gutzwiller

"Distance Decay in Bird Community Similarity:
Are Neutral Theory and Niche-Assembly Theory Possible Explanations?"
127th Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. August 12-15, 2009.

Tracy Carter
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Gutzwiller

"Distance Decay in Bird Community Similarityin Relation to Geographic Distance,
Interspecific Associations, and Legacy Effects of Landscape Conditions"
US-International Association of Landscape Ecology Symposium
Athens, Georgia. April 5-9, 2010.

Anica Debelica
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Wilkins

"Resource Partitioning in a Forest Dwelling Community in Eastern Texas: Preliminary Findings"
39th Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research
Portland, Oregon. November 4-7, 2009.

Anna Debelica
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Wilkins

"Sam Houston National Forest, Texas: To Net or Not to Net?"
Texas Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting
Junction, Texas. February 26-28, 2010.

Anna Debelica
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Wilkins

"Ecology of Bat Community in Piney Forests of Southeastern Texas"
Texas Academy of Science 113th Annual Meeting
Stephenville, Texas. March 4-6, 2010.

Anna Garland
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Religion and Political Participation:
The Limited Role of Traditions and Significant Role of Religious Beliefs"
American Sociological Association
San Francisco, California. August 8-11, 2009.

Nicholas Green
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Wilkins

"Mechanisms of Boundary Response in Small Mammal Communities: Preliminary Findings"
Texas Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting
Junction, Texas. February 26-28, 2010.

Mo Jia
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Gibbon

"Analysis of TOR Kinase Pathway Gene Expression in Developing Maize Kernels and Opaque Mutants"
Maize Genetics Conference
Riva del Garda, Italy. March 18-21, 2010.

Jason Locklin
Sponsor: Dr. Darrell Vodopich

"Gregarine Parasitism in the Dragonfly Erythemis Simplicicollis (Odonata: Libelluliadae)"
Texas Academy of Science Annual Meeting
Stephenville, Texas. March 4-6, 2010.

Darrel Murray
Sponsor: Dr. Joseph White

"Historical Disturbance Driven Dynamics in Central Texas Woodlands"
Ecocological Society of America 94th Annual Meeting
Albuquerque, New Mexico. August 2-7, 2009.

Tommy Pettit
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Wilkins

"New Method for Quantifying Physical Clutter in Forest Edges"
Annual Meeting of the North American Society for Bat Research
Portland, Oregon. November 4-7, 2009.

Pettit, Tommy
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Wilkins

"Bat Responses to Difference in Forest Edge Vegetation Structure"
Texas A&M Ecological Integration Symposium
College Station, Texas. March 26-2, 2010.

Jason Taylor
Sponsor: Dr. Ryan King

"Periphyton Response to Nutrient Enrichment Under Strong Grazing Pressure"
2009 Environmental Protection Agency STAR Graduate Fellowship Conference
Washington, DC. September 21-22,2009.

Kathy Young
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Trumble

"Using GC-FID in Conjunction with GC-MS to Identify Fatty Acid Methyl Esters
in Sympatric Marine Mammal Species"
2010 Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting
Seattle, Washington. January 7-10, 2010.

Biomedical Studies

Nerraja Akilla
Sponsor: Dr. Bingzhi Yang

"Expanding Frontiers through the Advancement of Science"
Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting
Houston, Texas. April 8-10, 2010.

Neeraja Akilla
Sponsor: Dr. Bingzhi Yang

"Novel Gene Therapy for Pompe Disease"
Lyosomes in Health Disease Conference
London, England. May 13-14, 2010.

Jason Berninger
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Probabilistic Assessment of Mammalian Pharmacological Data to Estimate
Potential Ecological Risk of Pharmaceuticals in Fish"
and
"Mammalian Pharmacological Data as a Screening Tool to Prioritize Compounds
for Studies of Alternative Chronic Endpoints in Fish"
National Meeting of the Society of Toxicology and Chemistry.
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 19-23, 2009.

Jason Berninger
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Towards Prioritization of Pharmaceutical Hazards to Fish"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Europe Annual Meeting
Seville, Spain. May 23-27, 2010.

Amanda Cobb
Sponsor: Dr. Jacques Banchereau

"Development of a Therapeutic HIV Vaccine Comprised of Autologous Dendritic Cells
Loaded with a Mixture of Lipopeptide HIV Antigens"
AIDS Vaccine 2009 Conference
Paris, France. October 19-22, 2009.

Kristin Connors
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Characterization of Thyroid Hormone Transporting Protein Expression During
Tissue Specific Metamorphic Events in Xenopus Tropicalis"
National Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 19-23, 2009.

Kristine DeLeon
Sponsor: Dr. Gouri Jas

"Reorientation of Angioenism I and II: Anisotropy Measurements and Molecular Dynamics Simulations"
Gordon Research Conference
Ventura, California. February 28-March 5, 2010.

Serena Greene
Sponsor: Dr. Jiahon Ding

"Expanding Frontiers through the Advancement of Science"
Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting
Houston, Texas. April 8-10, 2010.

Wendy Hegefield
Sponsor: Dr. Gouri Jas

"Structural Dynamics of Peptide YY"
Gordon Research Conference
Ventura, California. February 28-March 5, 2010.

Christine Morel
Sponsor: Dr. Sangkon Oh

"Dendritic Cells in SLE Serum Enhance B Cell Differentiation into IgA Producing Plasmablasts"
FOCIS 2009 (Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies
San Francisco, California. June 11-14, 2009.

Lee Tran
Sponsor: Dr. Brad Keele

"Low Serotonin-Induced Increase in GluR1 in Rat Lateral Amygdala Increases Anxiety
and is Mediated by CamKII Phosphorylation"
Society for Neuroscience National Conference
Chicago, Illinois. October 17-21, 2009.

Crystal Usenko
Sponsor: Dr. Erica Bruce

"Evaluation of C60 Toxicity:
Effect of Preparation and Aqueous Suspension"
National Meeting of the Society of Toxicology and Cehemistry
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 20-23, 2009.

Brandi Wasek
Sponsor: Dr. Teodoro Bottiglieri

"Modulators of Vascular Function: The Effect of Aging and Folate Deficiency
on Homocysteine, Asymmetric Dimethylarginine and Tetrahydrobiopterin in Mice"
World Congress on Hyperhomocysteinemia
Prague, Czechoslovakia. June 21-25, 2009.

Business Administration

Kurt Flor
Sponsor: Dr. Walter Bradley

"Whole Tree, Inc: Creating Value Using Renewable Resources"
Rice Business Plan Competition
Houston, Texas. April 14-16, 2010.

John Wakefield
Sponsor: Dr. Walter Bradley

"Whole Tree, Inc: Creating Value Using Renewable Resources"
Rice Business Plan Competition
Houston, Texas. April 14-16, 2010.

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Chemistry & Biochemistry

Sheree Allen
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Garner

"A Study on the Enantioseparations of Commercially Available E Cyclodextrin Capillary GC Columns"
41st National Organic Symposium (NOS)
Boulder, Colorado. June 7-11, 2009.

Jason Bell
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Garner

"Synthesis and applications of chiral phosphinines"
American Chemical Society National Meeting
Washington, DC. August 16-19, 2009.

Vanessa Castleberry
Sponsor: Dr. Darrin Bellert

"Energy and Rate Determinations to Activate the C-C Bond of Acetone By Gaseous /NI+"
64th Internatoinal Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy
Columbus, Ohio. June 22-26, 2009.

Vanessa Castleberry
Sponsor: Dr. Darrin Bellert

"The Low Energy Unimolecular Decomposition Reactions Initiated by Gaseous Ni cation"
41st 25th Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometery
Pacific Grove, California. October 16-20, 2009.

Gustavo Chavarria
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Lynn Trawick

"Analysis of Novel Low Nanomolar Thiosemicarbazone Inhibitors of Cruzain"
College Sport Research Institute's 2010 Scholarly Conference
Anaheim, California. April 24-28, 2010.

Jason Dee
Sponsor: Dr. Darrin Bellert

"Kinetic and Thermodynamic Studies of Gaseous Metallo-Organic Cationic Complexes"
64th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy
Columbus, Ohio. June 22-26, 2009.

Helena Diez-y-Riega
Sponsor: Dr. Carlos Manzanares

"Vibrational Overtone Spectra of C2H6 and C2H4 in Cryogenic Liquids"
64th Internatioal Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy
Columbus, Ohio. June 22-26, 2009.

Ivanna Laboren
Sponsor: Dr. Darrin Bellert

"Low Energy Sigma Bond Activation by Gaseous Nickel Cation"
ACS 238th National Meeting
Washington, DC. August 16-20, 2009.

Jong-Sun Lee
Sponsor: Dr. Sung-Kun Kim

"Discovery of a New Class of 3'-Phosphoadenosine-5' Phosphosulfate Reductase from the
Methanarcheon Methanocaldococcus Jannaschii"
American Chemical Society's National Meeting
San Francisco, California. March 21-25, 2010.

Basu Panthi
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Gipson

"Reductive Chemistry and Electrochemistr of RhCOCF3(dppp)I2"
ACS 238th National Meeting
Washington, DC. August 16-20, 2009.

Yasnahir Perez-Delgado
Sponsor: Dr. Carlos Manzanares

"Rotationally Resolved Absorption of 02 at 90 K"
64th Internatioal Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy(NOS)
Columbus, Ohio. June 22-26, 2009.

Sara Schlesinger
Sponsor: Dr. Sung-Kun Kim

"Redox Properties of a Thioredoxin-like Arabidopsis Protein, AtTDX"
American Chemical Society National Meeting
San Francisco, California. March 21-25, 2010.

Richard Sevcik
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Chambliss

"Identification and Quntiation of Water Extractives in Selected Sorghum Variants"
Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals
Clearwater Beach, Florida. April 19-22, 2010.

Sheena Shipley
Sponsor: Dr. Sung-Kun Kim

"Selection of Aptamers Against E. coli Cells Using Cell SELEX"
Association of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Anaheim, California. April 24-28, 2010.

Bikram Subedi
Sponsor: Dr. Sascha Usenko

"Analysis of Personal Care Products in German Fish Tissue by GC-MS/MS: A Nationwide Study"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry South Regional Meeting
Junction, Texas. April 30-May 2, 2010.

Bikram Subedi
Sponsor: Dr. Sascha Usenko

"Analytical improvements in the analysis of pharmaceutical and personal care products in fish tissue"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 19-23, 2009.

Church-State Studies

Meredith Holladay
Sponsor: Dr. Charles McDaniel

"Not in Our Backyard: The Ten Commandments in Public Spaces"
Puitt Memorial Symposium
Waco, Texas. October 1-3, 2009.

Jonathan Mizuta
Sponsor: Dr. Daniel Payne

"Orthodox Exceptionalism and Asian Values:
A Comparative Study of Russian and Chinese Understandings of Human Rights"
Comparing the Politics of the Eurasian Regional Powers: China, Russia, India, and Turkey
Tokyo, Japan. December 11-16, 2009.

Robert Smith
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Wilkins

"Surveying the Exception:
Quantifying American Religious Attitudes toward the State of Israel"
American Academy of Religion Conference
Montreal, Canada. November 7-10, 2009.

Mihai Tarta
Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Marsh

"Competing Versions of Civil Religion Based on Latinism in Romania"
Association for the Study of Nationalities 2010 World Convention
New York City, New York. April 15-17, 2010.

Artyom Tonoyan
Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Marsh

"Echoes of the Past:
Identity, Religion and Nationalism in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Convention
Boston, Massachusetts. November 12-15, 2009.

Aaron Weaver
Sponsor: Dr. Charles McDaniel

"The Impact of Social Progressive T.B. Maston
upon Southern Baptist Life in the Twenieth Century"
Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 3, 2010.

Aaron Weaver
Sponsor: Dr. Charles McDaniel

"'Not in My Backyard' to 'Not in Anyone's Backyard'"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
Irving, Texas. March 13-14, 2010.

Xiaheng Xie
Sponsor: Dr. Chris Marsh

"Be Modern, Be Religious-Some Observations of Current Chinese Protestants"
Midwest Political Science Association 68th Annual National Conference
Chicago, Illinois. April 22-25, 2010.

Communication Studies

Winston Ewert
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Marks II

"Evolutionary Sythesis of Nand Logic Dissecting a Digital Organism"
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
San Antonio, Texas. October 11-14, 2009.

Dustin Greenwalt
Sponsor: Dr. Scott Varda

Alta Summer Conference in Argumentation
Snowbird, Utah. July 30-August 2, 2009.

Ryan Smith
Sponsor: Dr. David Schlueter

"What is the Symptom of Torture?:
Why a Rhizomatic Methodology for Visual Rhetoric Dismantles the Need for this Question"
Symptom in Theory Symposium
Cardiff, United Kingdom. Setember 8, 2009.

Curriculum and Instruction

Dionne Jackson
Sponsor: Dr. Betty Conaway

"The Impact Science Teachers' Epistemological Beliefs on Authentic Inquiry"
Annual Meeting of the Soutwest Educational Research Association
New Orleans, Louisiana. February 17-20, 2010.

Dionne Jackson
Sponsor: Dr. Betty Conaway

"The Impact Science Teachers' Epistemological Beliefs on Authentic Inquiry"
Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference
Chicago, Illinois. February 13-17, 2010.

James Rodgers
Sponsor: Dr. Wesley Null

"Toward a More Balanced Academic Curriculum:
A Call for the Renaissance of Physical Education in American Schools"
Organization of Educational Historians Conference
Chicago, Illinois. September 18-19, 2009.

James Rodgers
Sponsor: Dr. Trena Wilkerson

"Choosing to Teach for Understanding: A Positive Action to Ensure the Success of PK-12 Students"
The Association of Teacher Educators
Chicago, Illinois. February 14-17, 2010.

Jordan Sandefur
Sponsor: Dr. Wilkerson

"A Geometric Study In Young Children: A Study In Australia"
School of Science and Mathmetics Association
Reno, Nevada. October 22-24, 2009.

Jordan Sandefur
Sponsor: Dr. Sandra Cooper

"Examining Geometric Thinking in Young Children: A Study in Australia"
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
San Diego, California. April 21-24, 2010.

Mary Simpson
Sponsor: Dr. Tony Talbert

"A Collaborative Effort: Using Team Learning to Build Classroom Success"
ATE Summer Conference
Reno, Nevada. August 1-5, 2009.

Educational Administration

Mito Espinoza
Sponsor: Dr. Liz Palacios

"Assessing Culturally-Based Greek Organizations at Traditionally White Institutions"
American College Personnel Association
Boston, Massachusetts. March 21-24, 2010.

Estee Hernandez
Sponsor: Dr. Elizabeth Palacios

"Empowering and Advocating for Latino Greek Organizations"
National Association of Student Personnel Administration Annual Conference
Chicago, Illinois. March 6-10, 2010.

Estee Hernandez
Sponsor: Dr. Elizabeth Palacios

"Assessing Culturally-Based Greek Organizations at Traditionally White Institutions"
American College Personnel Annual Convention
Boston, Massachusetts. March 21-24, 2010.

Olga Rodriguez
Sponsor: Dr. Liz Palacios

"Empowering and Advocating for Latino Greek Organizations"
2010 NASPA Annual Conference
Chicago, Illinois. March 6-10, 2010.

Educational Psychology

Ikuko Aoyama
Sponsor: Dr. Terrill Saxon

"Cyberbullying Among University Students: Definition, Prevalence and Predictors"
World Society of Victimology's 13th International Symposium on Victimology
Mito, Japan. August 23-28, 2009.

Ikuko Aoyama
Sponsor: Dr. Terrill Saxon

"Cyber-bullying Subtypes and Sex Differences Among College Students"
American Educational Research Association's Annual Meeting
Denver, Colorado. April 30-May 4, 2010.

Tracy Baker
Sponsor: Dr. Susan Johnsen

"Planning Effective Interventions for At-Risk Gifted Students"
Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented
Houston, Texas. December 4, 2009

Karen Rollins
Sponsor: Dr. Susan Johnson

"Meeting the Needs of Gifted Students Within an RtI Framework"
Council for Exceptional Children Convention
Nashville, Tennessee. April 19-23, 2010.

Xiao Qiu
Sponsor: Dr. Alex Beaujean

"Cognitive Epidemiology: The Influence of Personality
and Cognitive Ability in Health Outcomes"
Southwestern Psychological Association Conversation
Dallas, Texas. April 8-10, 2010.

William Shiu
Sponsor: Dr. Alex Beaujean

"Evidence of the Flynn Effect in Children: A Metaphysical Analysis"
Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention
Boston, Massachusetts. May 27-30, 2010.

Tracey Sulak
Sponsor: Dr. Lucy Barnard-Brak

"Rapid Letter Naming Performance to Assist in Identifying Learning Disabilities, Autism, and ADHD"
American Educational Research Association's Annual Meeting
Denver, Colorado. April 30-May 4, 2010.

David Thomson
Sponsor: Dr. Lucy Barnard-Brak

"A Pre- and Perinatal Model for Autism Spectrum Disorder Predictors:
Results of a Nationally Representative Sample"
American Educational Research Association's Annual Meeting
Denver, Colorado. April 30-May 4, 2010.

Kellsye Wells
Sponsor: Dr. Susan Johnsen

"Planning Effective Interventions for At-Risk Gifted Students"
Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented
Houston, Texas. December 4, 2009

Lindsey Witte
Sponsor: Dr. Julie Ivey

"How Does Exposure to Disabilities Affect College Sudent's Attitudes"
National Association of School of Psychologists 2010 Annual Convention
Chicago, Illinois. March 3, 2010.

Engineering

Sean Conroy
Sponsor: Dr. Amanda Sturgill

"Wholetree: A Triple Bottom Line Company, Converting Renewable Resources into Value-Added Solutions"
Advanced Invention to Venture
Cambridge, Massachusetts. August 16-19, 2009.

Sean Conroy
Sponsor: Dr. Walter Bradley

"Evidence of the Flynn Effect in Children: A Metaphysical Analysis"
Rice Business Plan Competition
Houston, Texas. April 15-17, 2010.

English

Adrienne Akins
Sponsor: Dr. Sarah Ford

"Next Time Just Remember the Story: Unlearning Empire in Silko's Ceremony"
College English Association Conference
San Antonio, Texas. March 25-27, 2010.

Adrienne Akins
Sponsor: Dr. Sarah Ford

"'What People Like Miss Jane Remember': Memory and Education as Cultural Capital in Gaine's the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman"
Society for the Study of Southern Literature 2010 Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana. April 8-11, 2010.

Bethany Bear
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Losey

"Work and Wonder in Christina Rossettie's Speaking Likenesses"
British Women Writer's Conference
College Station, Texas. April 8-10, 2010.

Laura Bedwell
Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Hanks Jr.

"The Unimportance of Noble Blood in Malory's 'Torre and Pellinor'"
Southeastern Medieval Association Conference
Nashville, Tennessee. October 15-17. 2009.

Laura Bedwell
Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Hanks

"Doubting Thomas: Textual Inflection, Refraction, and Redaction in Malory's Morte Darthur"
International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 13-16, 2010.

Jeffrey Bilbro
Sponsor: Dr. Phillip Donnelly

"Proposal Abstract"
Southwestern Conference on Christianity and Literature
Houston, Texas. October 1-3. 2009.

David Clark
Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Hanks

"Aristotelian Angles? Ethics and the Warrior Ethos in Anglo-Saxon England"
International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 13-16, 2010.

Lisa Echtenkamp
Sponsor: Dr. James Barcus

"The Continued Relevance of the Dystopian Vision in Margarete Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'"
Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Annual Conference
Albuquerque, New Mexico. February 10-13, 2010.

Denise Galloway
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Losey

"Private Virtues and Public Importance: The Type of the Servant in Jane Austen's Persuasian"
British Women Writer's Conference
College Station, Texas. April 8-10, 2010.

Christina Iluzada
Sponsor: Dr. Luke Ferreter

"The Angel and Her Industry Within American Popular Culture: A Feminist Critique of All Summer Long"
"Bodies" Literature Conference
Columbia, South Carolina. February 29-30, 2010.

Christina Iluzada
Sponsor: Dr. Phillip Donnelly

"'The Whole Creation Groaneth in Pain Together':
The Suffering and Redemption of Earth in Paradise Lost"
South Central Renaissance Conference
Houston, Texas. March 18-20, 2010.

Virginia Jarrell
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Losey

"Woman Question"
Midwest Conference on British Studies
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 9-11. 2009.

Nathan Kilpatrick
Sponsor: Dr. Greg Garrett

"Some Last Venture at the End of the World:
Familial Quests and Spatial Limitations in The Road"
West Region Conference of Christianity and Literature
Riverside, California. March 25-27, 2010.

Michael Milburn
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Klingman

"Tokein on Truth with a Capital 'T'"
13th Annual CS Lewis and Inklings Society Conference
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. April 9-10, 2010.

John Moore
Sponsor: Dr. Greg Garrett

"No Country for Old Men"
Southwestern Conference on Christianity and Literature
Houston, Texas. October 1-3. 2009.

Dustin Morrow
Sponsor: Dr. Sarah Ford

"Rehabilitating Till: Finding a Voice for Cather's Slave Girl"
College English Association Conference
San Antonio, Texas. March 25-27, 2010.

Alan Noble
Sponsor: Dr. Luke Ferretter

"Discontinuity and Dialogue:
The Problem of Discourse and Language in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing"
South Central Modern Language Association
Baton Rouge, Louisiana. October 29-31,2009.

Amanda Nydegger
Sponsor: Dr. James Barcus

"The Progressive Dickens:
The Complexity of Bella Wilfer in Our Mutual Friend"
Rocky Mountain Modern Langauge Association Conference
Snowbird, Utah. October, 8-11, 2009.

Amanda Nydegger
Sponsor: Dr. James Barcus

"Welcoming Change: Generations and Regeneration"
Professional and Organizational Developmental Network
Houston, Texas. October 28-November 1, 2009.

Julie Ooms
Sponsor: Dr. Luke Ferretter

"Being Mad's Infectious': The Success and Eventual Downfall World
of the Queer Reader in the Dystopia of Brave New World"
Midwestern Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature (CCL)
Wheaton, Illinois. September 24-26, 2009.

Steve Petersheim
Sponsor: Dr. Ralph Wood

"Pawning His Honest Laughter:
Dante's Restorative Work of Comedy"
Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature at Houston Baptist University
Houston, Texas. October 1-3,2009.

Steven Petersheim
Sponsor: Dr. David Jeffrey

"Religious and Ironic Disposition in Hawthorne's Tales"
Conference of the American Religion and Literature Society
San Francisco, California. May 27-30, 2010.

Mary Simpson
Sponsor: Dr. Tony Talbert

"A Collaborative Effort:
Using Team Learning to Build Classroom Success"
ATE Summer Conference
Reno, Nevada. August 1-5,2009.

Mary Simpson
Sponsor: Dr. Tony Talbert

"Climbing the Creative Ladder of Success with Teamwork"
KDP Convocation
Orlando, Florida. October 29-31,2009.

Bethany Smith
Sponsor: Dr. Tramble Turner

"Exciting the Museum of Words: Ekprasis, Excavation, and the Ethics
of Exchange in Eavan Boland's Domestic Violence"
American Conference on Irish Studies
University City, Pennsylvania. May 5-8, 2010.

Margy Thomas
Sponsor: Dr. Joe Fulton

"The Omoo's Home Away From Home:
The City as Imagined and Remembered by the Exile"
Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature
Wheaton, Illinois. September 24-26, 2009.

Margy Thomas
Sponsor: Dr. Ron Thomas

"Inside and Outside the Home in Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth"
International Community of Christian Teacher Educators Conference
Longview, Texas. May 26-28, 2010.

Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature
Wheaton, Illinois. September 24-26, 2009.

Daniel Train
Sponsor: Jerrie Callan

"Teaching Reading and Writing as an 'Attention' Leading to Prayer: How Simone Weils 'Right Use of School Studies' Can Help us Prepare Attentive Teachers of First Year Composition"
International Community of Christian Teacher Educators Conference
Longview, Texas. May 26-28, 2010.

Lori Tubbs
Sponsor: Dr. Hanks

"Death of the Maiden, Triumph of the Law:
Britomart and Amoret in Spenser's 'Labyrinth'"
Southeastern Medieval Association Conference
Nashville, Tennessee. October 15-17. 2009.

Rachel Webster
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Losey

"Your Story is My Story: Reconstructing the Past in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo
Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Annual Conference
Albuquerque, New Mexico. February 10-13, 2010.

Holland White
Sponsor: Dr. Luke Ferreter

"The Necessity of Art in 'Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes'"
South Atlantic Modern language Association Conference
Atlanta, Georgia. November 6-8, 2009.

Danielle Williams
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Gardner

"The Mystery of Creation in the Poetry of Elizabeth Jennings"
Southwest Christianity and Literature Conference
Houston, Texas. October 1-3, 2009.

Seth Wright
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Losey

"The Planetary Architechtonics of C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy"
C.S. Lewis and Inklings Society Conference
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. April 9-10, 2010.

Vivien Zelazny
Sponsor: Dr. Luke Ferreter

"The Private Eye and the Pornographer: Public and Private Vision in Chandler's 'The Big Sleep'"
South Central Modern Language Association Convention
Baton Rouge, Louisiana. October 29-31, 2009.

Environmental Science

Eleanor Robinson
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Determination of PBDEs, OH-PBDEs, and Fatty Acids in Bowhead Whale Blubber"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry National Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 19-23, 2009.

Eleanor Robinson
Sponsor: Dr. Sasha Usenko

"Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Bowhead Whale Blubber in the Alaskan Arctic"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry's Europe Conference
Seville, Spain. May 23-27, 2010.

Theodore Valenti
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Improving Environmental Risk Assessment for Ionizable Contaminants"
and
"Behavioral Modifications of Pimphales Promelas (fathead minnow)
Exposed to the Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitor Sertaline"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry National Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 19-23. 2009.

Geology

Alan Gunnell
Sponsor: Dr. John Dunbar

"Correlations Between Direct Current Resistivity and Seismic Attribute Tests Across an
Active Methane Hydrate Vent in Mississippi Canyon Block 118, Gulf of Mexico"
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Spring Student Expo
Norman, Oklahoma. March 11-12, 2010.

Alan Gunnell
Sponsor: Dr. John Dunbar

"Correlations Between Direct Current Resistivity and Seismic Attribute Tests Across an
Active Methane Hydrate Vent in Mississippi Canyon Block 118, Gulf of Mexico"
Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering
and Environmental Problems Annual Meeting
Keystone, Colorado. April 11-15, 2010.

Ryan Lindsay
Sponsor: Dr. Vincent Cronin

"Seismo-Lineament Analysis Method (SLAM):
Correlating Earthquakes with Faults, Tahoe Basin Area of California and Nevada"
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Norman, Oklahoma. March 11-12, 2010.

Lauren Michel
Sponsor: Dr. Steven G. Driese

"Diagenetic Study of Paleosol Carbonates, Lodeve Basin, French Massif Central"
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Portand, Oregon. October 18-21, 2009.

Hallie Mintz
Sponsor: Dr. John Dunbar

"Stream Valley Resistivity in Central Texas: Laying the Foundation for Multi-Disciplinary Research"
Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems Annual Meeting
Keystone, Colorado. April 11-15, 2010.

Hallie Mintz
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Pulliam

"Investigating the Source of Seismic Swarms Along the Eastern End
of the Puerto Rico Trench"
Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting
Portland, Oregon. April 21-23, 2010.

Jason Mintz
Sponsor: Dr. Steven G. Driese

"Seasonal Influence of Changing Hydrology on Pedogenic Carbonate Formation
in Vertisols, Dance Bayou, Brazoria County, TX"
Southeastern Medieval Association Conference
Portand, Oregon. October 18-21, 2009.

Carrie Rockett
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Pulliam

"A Seismic Investigation of the Rio Grande Rift:
The Role of Edge-Driven Convection in Continental Rifting"
Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting
Portland, Oregon. April 21-23, 2010.

Gary Stinchcomb
Sponsor: Dr. Steven Driese

"Floodplain Response to Late Holocene Climate Change and Human Land-Use
at the Manna Site, Upper Delaware Valley, PA"
Medieval Associatoin Conference
Portland, Oregon. October 17-22, 2009.

Joseph Sang
Sponsor: Dr. Steven G. Driese

"Watershed Erosion Modelling:
A New Approach to Include Gully Erosion"
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Portland, Oregon. October 18-21, 2009.

Aislyn Trendell
Sponsor: Dr. Stacy Atchley

"Channels, Overbanks and Paleosols: The Relationship Between Climate,
Base Level and Lithofacies Heterogeneity Within the Triassic Sonsela Member"
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana. April 11-15, 2010.

Daniel Wegert
Sponsor: Dr. Steven G. Driese

"Petrogenesis of the Raton-Clayton Volcanic Field"
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Portand, Oregon. October 18-21, 2009.

Stephanie Wong
Sponsor: Dr. Joe Yelderman, Jr.

"Quantifying Groundwater Resources in Alluvial Aquifiers Using GIS"
Ground Water Summit and Ground Water Protection Council Spring Meeting
Denver, Colorado. April 11-15, 2010.

History

Meredith Akins
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

"Attack on All Fronts:
The Press Vendetta Against Mary Todd Lincoln during the Civil War"
Southwestern Social Association Annual Conference
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 3, 2010.

Paul Fisher
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

"Presenting the Gospel: Denominational Adaptations in Providing Christianity
and Education to the Five Tribes, 1800-1840"
Southwestern Social Science Annual Conference
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 3, 2010.

Alisha Hash
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

"Liars, lovers, and Ladies: Women during the Civil War"
Southwestern Social Science Annual Conference
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 3, 2010.

Joshua Hyles
Sponsor: Dr. Keith Francis

"Sneaking a Dragon into Brussels: Can Wales Find Its Voice in Post Devolution Britain and Europe?"
Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference
Boulder, Colorado. September 11-12, 2009.

Joshua Hyles
Sponsor: Dr. Julie Sweet

"Atlanta's Prometheus: William T. Sherman and the Gift of Renewal"
Georgia Association of Historians Annual Conference
Decatur, Georgia. February 18-20, 2010.

Benjamin Wetzel
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

"Social Gospel and Racial Reform, 1865-1920"
Mid-America Conference on History
Norman, Oklahoma. October 1-3, 2009.

Benjamin Wetzel
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

"Occom vs. Occom: English Christianity
and Indian Identity in the Late Eighteenth Century"
Southwestern Historical Association Annual Meeting
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 4, 2010.

Elizabeth Wilson
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

"Capital, Catholicism, and the Mexican Revolution"
Southwestern Social Science Association Conference
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 3, 2010.

Elizabeth Wilson
Sponsor: Dr. Joan Supplee

"Capital Men: Determining Archbishops in Chile and Argentina"
Southwest Council of Latin American Studies Conference
Santa Fe, New Mexico. March 24-27, 2010.

Information Systems

Janice Lo
Sponsor: Dr. Cindy Riemenschneider

"Disclosure Decisions and Impacts of Disclosing Stigmatized Identities in Virtual Teams"
2009 Academy of Management Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. August 7-11, 2009.

Journalism

Billy Collins
Sponsor: Dr. Amanda Sturgill

"Interactions between Media Use, Religiosity, and Attitudes about Scientific Controversy"
Association for Education in Journalism and
Mass Communication Winter Meeting
Norman, Oklahoma. March 5-6, 2010.

Kristine Davis
Sponsor: Dr. Amanda Sturgill

"Communication Technology Division Paper"
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Midwinter Conference
Norman, Oklahoma. March 5-6, 2010.

Caroline Korsawe
Sponsor: Dr. Amanda Sturgill

"Who Teaches Technology: Faculty Age and Experience
as it Relates to Types of Courses Taught"
Annual Western Social Science Association Conference
Reno, Nevada. April 14-17, 2010.

Ryan Pierce
Sponsor: Dr. Amanda Sturgill

"Online News Websites: How Much Information How Fast?"
AEJMC Annual Convention
Boston, Massachusetts. August 5-8, 2009.

Bethany Poller
Sponsor: Dr. Amanda Sturgill

"Communication Technology Division Paper"
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Midwinter Conference
Norman, Oklahoma. March 5-6, 2010.

Chelsea Quackenbush
Sponsor: Dr. Amanda Sturgill

"Who Teaches Technology: Faculty Age and Experience as it
Relates to Types of Courses Taught"
Annual Western Social Science Association Conference
Reno, Nevada. April 14-17, 2010.

Chad Shanks
Sponsor: Dr. Amanda Sturgill

"Students? Privacy Perceptions and Behavior on Facebook"
Western Social Science Conference
Reno, Nevada. April 14-17, 2010.

Cody Winchester
Sponsor: Dr. Amanda Sturgill

"The Effects of Audio Recording on Reportorial Accuracy: Implications"
AEJMC Annual Convention
Boston, Massachusetts. August 5-8, 2009.

Mathematics

Jeff Lyons
Sponsor: Dr. Johnny Henderson

"Boundary Data Smoothness for Solutions of Nonlocal Boundary Value Problems for nth Order Difference Equations"
American Mathematics Society and Mathematical Association of America Joint Meeting
San Francisco, California. January 13-16, 2010.

Brian Williams
Sponsor: Dr. David Ryden

"Full Projections in Inverse Limits of Set-Valued Functions"
Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference
Starkville, Mississippi. March 18-20, 2010.

Mechanical Engineering

Sean Conroy
Sponsor: Dr. Walter Bradley

"The Reinforcement of Polyolefins with Natural Materials Derived from the Coconut"
International Polyolefins Conference
Houston, Texas. February 21-24, 2010.

Jason Gregg
Sponsor: Dr. Ken van Treuren

"Experimental Analysis of a Counter-Rotating Wind Turbine"
International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
Lake Buena Vista, Florida. November 13-19, 2009.

Steven Mart
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen McClain

"Heat Transfer from Protuberances and Simulated Ice Accretion Roughness Elements"
International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
Lake Buena Vista, Florida. November 13-19, 2009.

John Wakefield
Sponsor: Dr. Walter Bradley

"The Reinforcement of Polyolefins with Natural Materials Derived from the Coconut"
International Polyolefins Conference
Houston, Texas. February 21-24, 2010.

Music Studies

Jamie Madera
Sponsor: Dr. Eka Gogichashvili

Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor
Fort Worth, Texas. February 1-2, 2010.

Jamie Madera
Sponsor: Dr. Eka Gogichashvili

"Concerto No. 2 in G Minor"
Tuesday Musical Club's Young Artists Competition in String
San Antonio, Texas. March 6, 2010.

Performance Studies

Marcos Duran
Sponsor: Dr. Michael Jacobson

Saxophone Performance
International Saxophone Symposium
Fairfax, Virginia. January 15-16, 2010.

Philosophy

Ryan Byerly
Sponsor: Dr. Jon Kvanvig

"It Depends on What Your Definition of 'There Is' Is"
Eastern Division Society of Christian Philosophers Meeting
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. March 12-13, 2010.

Brad Brummeler
Sponsor: Dr. Todd Buras

"Acquired Perception and Social Feedback: Assessing Reid's Response to Illusion of Light of Common and Uncommon Phenomena of Human Vision"
Society of Christian Philosophers Midwest Conference
Grand Rapids, Michigan. April 29-May 2, 2010.

Nathan Carson
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Evans

"The Extent of Kierkegaard's Skepticism"
61st Annual Northwest Philosophy Conference
Forest Grove, Oregon. October 23-24, 2009.

Nathan Carson
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Evans

"Artistic Representation and Inner-Historical Time:
Kierkegaard on the Temporal Limitations of Art and the Task of the Literary Artist"
61st Annual Northwest Philosophy Conference
Forest Grove, Oregon. October 23-24, 2009.

Heidi Chamberlain
Sponsor: Dr. Bob Roberts

"Korsgaard and Vogler on the Irrationality of Vice"
Iowa Philosophical Association Conference
Iowa City, Iowa. November 14, 2009.

Heidi Chamberlain
Sponsor: Dr. Bob Roberts

"Moral Growth Relapse: A Puzzle for Kantian Accounts of Moral Transformation"
International Congress on Medieval Studies
Pisa, Italy. May 22-26, 2010.

William Scott Cleveland
Sponsor: Dr. Bob Roberts

"Essential Virtue and the Diversity of Virtue:
Adams on Virtue and Virtues"
Society of Christian Philosopher's Eastern Division Annual Meeting
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. March 12-13, 2010.

Travis Coblentz
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Evans

"Is Love Fideism?:
The Dangers of Deliberation in Bonhoeffer and Kierkegaard"
Evangelical Philosophical Society Midwest Regional Meeting
St. Paul, Minnesota. March 19-20, 2010.

David Echelbarger
Sponsor: Dr. Anne Bowery

"The Place of Self-Mastery In Plato's Republic"
Annual Joint Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
New York City, New York. October 16-18, 2009.

Daniel Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Alexander Pruss

"Skepticism and Circular Arguments"
Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
Chicago, Illinois. February 17-20, 2010.

Daniel Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Bob Roberts

"Foundational Beliefs and Persuading with Humor:
Reflections Inspired by Reid and Kierkegaard"
Reid in His Time and Ours
Aberdeen and Glasgow, Scotland. March 21-26, 2010.

Janelle Klapauszak
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"Justice and Mercy inLes Miserables"
Faith, Film, and Philosophy Seminar
Spokane, Washington. November 6-7, 2009

Ross Parker
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Evans

"Why Be Moral? A Critique"
Southwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society
New Orleans, Louisiana. February 26-27, 2010.

Adam Pelser
Sponsor: Dr. Todd Buras

"Seeing is Not Believing: A Case for Modifying Reid's Theory of Perception"
Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
Chicago, Illinois. February 18-20, 2010.

Adam Pelser
Sponsor: Dr. Bob Roberts

"Emotion and the Value of Understanding"
Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
San Francisco, California. April 1-2, 2010.

Gregory Poore
Sponsor: Dr. Todd Buras

"Coherence and the Justificatory Role of Theism in Reid's Epitemology"
Reid in His Time and Ours
Aberdeen and Glasgow, Scotland. March 21-26, 2010.

Gregory Poore
Sponsor: Dr. Todd Buras

"Coherence and the Justificatory Role of Theism in Reid's Epitemology"
Reid in His Time and Ours
Aberdeen and Glasgow, Scotland. March 21-26, 2010.

Christopher Schrock
Sponsor: Dr. Todd Buras

"Thomas Reid's Singular Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction"
Reid in His Time and Ours
Aberdeen and Glasgow, Scotland. March 21-26, 2010.

Joel Schwartz
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Kruschwitz

"Does Wolterstorff Get Rights Right?"
Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 18-20, 2009.

Joel Schwartz
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Kruschwitz

"Descriptive Dignity: Pope John Paul II and Human Rights"
Evangelical Philosophical Society Midwest Regional Meeting
St. Paul, Minnesota. March 19-20, 2010.

John Spano
Sponsor: Dr. Anne Bowery

"Transcending Civil Friendship"
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy and Society for Islamic Philosophy
New York City, New York. October 16-18, 2009.

Physics

Karen Bland
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Dittman

"Search for SM Higgs Boson in the Diphoton Final State at CDF"
American Physical Society
Washington, D.C. February 13-17, 2010.

James Creel
Sponsor: Dr. Truell Hyde

"Measurements within a GEC rf Cell"
Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics
Atlanta, Georgia. November 2-6, 2009.

Angela Douglass
Sponsor: Dr. Truell Hyde

"Dust Particle Probes in a Complex Plasma"
Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics
Atlanta, Georgia. November 2-6, 2009.

Martin Frank
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Dittman

"Search for SM Higgs Production in Association with a $W$ Boson Using a Neural Network Technique at CDF"
American Physical Society
Washington, D.C. February 13-17, 2010.

Victor Guerrero
Sponsor: Dr. Walter Wilcox

"Eigenspectrum Noise Subtraction Methods in Lattice QCD"
The XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory
Beijing, China. July 25-31, 2009.

Jonathan Perry
Sponsor: Dr. Lorin Matthews

"Dipole-Dipole Interactions of Charged Magnetic Grains"
Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
The Woolands, Texas. March 1-5, 2010.

Zhuanhao Zhang
Sponsor: Dr. Truell Hyde

"A Study of the Resonance Frequency of Conductive Grains in a Dusty Plasma"
Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics
Atlanta, Georgia. November 2-6, 2009.

Political Science

Elizabeth Amato
Sponsor: Dr. David Corey

"Walker Percy and the Pursuit of Happiness"
Summons of Freedom: Virtue, Sacrifice, and the Common Good Conference
Notre Dame, Indiana. November 12-14, 2009.

Elizabeth Amato
Sponsor: Dr. David Corey

"Edith Wharton's Critique of the Pursuit of Happiness in The Custom of the Country and The Age of Innocence"
Midwest Political Science Association Conference
Chicago, Illinois. April 22-23, 2010.

Anthony Bartl
Sponsor: Dr. David Nichols

"Justice Kennedy and Substantive Due Process:
A Reinterpretation of Capper"
Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California. April 1-3, 2010.

Steven Block
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Nichols

"Mill's Liberal Pedagogy in On Liberty"
Southern Political Science Associatoin Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia. January 7-10, 2010.

Steven Block
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Nichols

"Mill's Liberal Pedagogy in On Liberty"
Southwest Social Science Association Annual Meeting
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 3, 2010.

Patrick Cain
Sponsor: Dr. David Corey

"The Family, Locke, and the Court: Reconciling Individual Rights with Community"
Northeastern Political Science Association's Annual Conference
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 19-21, 2009.

Patrick Cain
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Nichols

"Solving Hamilton: Using Hamilton's Convention PLan to Interpret His Federalist Writings"
Southern Political Science Association Annual Conference
Atlanta, Georgia. January 7-9, 2010.

Matt Dinan
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Nichols

"Decadent Socrates, Ascetic Nietzche: Reconsidering Nietzche's Ascetic Ideal"
Harvard Graduate Conference in Political Theory
Cambridge, Massachusetts. October 29-31, 2009.

Amy Edmonds
Sponsor: Dr. Jerold Waltman

"Historical Institutions and Church Opposition to Authoritarianism"
Midwest Political Science Association Conference
Chicago, Illinois. April 21-24, 2010.

Jerome Foss
Sponsor: Dr. David Nichols

"An Analysis of the Recent Supreme Court Decisions Ricci v. DeStefano"
Northeastern Political Science Association's Annual Conference
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 19-21, 2009.

Jerome Foss
Sponsor: Dr. David Nichols

"Fiddler on the Roof and the United States Constitution:
An Approach to Understanding Politics"
Midwest Political Science Association Conference
Chicago, Illinois. April 22-24, 2010.

Mary Mathie
Sponsor: Dr. David Corey

"Love and Politics in Antony and Cleopatra"
American Political Science Meeting
Toronto, Canada. September 3-6, 2009.

David Ramsey
Sponsor: Dr. David Nichols

"The Obama Administration, Behavioral Economics, and the Future of Antitrust Law Enforcement"
Southern Political Science Association
Atlanta, Georgia. January 7-9, 2010.

Tom Pope
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Nichols

"Our Hobbesian Founding:
The Constitution's Debt to the Monster of Malmesbury"
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. April 22-25, 2010.

Julianne Romanello
Sponsor: Dr. David Corey

"Eric Voegelin's Turn to the Ancients: A Comparison with Leo Strauss"
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association
Chicago, Illinois. April 22-25, 2010.

Joe Wysocki
Sponsor: Dr. David Nichols

"The Lives of Others: Human Transformation in Film"
Faith, Film, and Philosophy Seminar
Spokane, Washington. November 6-7, 2009.

Psychology & Neuroscience

Ruth Buechsel
Sponsor: Dr. Wade Rowatt

Developing an Implicit Measure of Dispositional Forgiveness"
Annual Convention of the Texas Psychological Association
Houston, Texas. November 5-7, 2009.

Robert Carlisle
Sponsor: Dr. Jo-Ann Tsang

"Spiritual Coping and Self-Discrepancy Theory"
Annual Meeting for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Las Vegas, Nevada. January 28-30, 2010.

Vivien Chin
Sponsor: Dr. Doug Matthews

"Adolescent Rats Are Less Sensitive than Adult Rats to the Spatial Memory Impairing Effects of Acute Ethanol"
32nd Annual RSA Scientific Conference
San Diego, California. June 20-24, 2009.

Kristi Fogle
Sponsor: Dr. Keith Sanford

"'You,' 'Me,' and 'I Agree': Linguistics in Couple Communication"
Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapists Conference
New York City, New York. November 20-22, 2009.

Aaron Grace
Sponsor: Dr. Keith Sanford

"Attachment Style and perceptions during Romantic Relationship Conflict"
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention
New York City, New York. November 19-22, 2010.

Rebecca Helfand
Sponsor: Dr. J.L. Diaz-Granados

"Postweaning Taurine Supplementation in Mice May Alter the Adolescent Response to Ethanol"
Research Society on Alcoholism Conference
San Diego, California. June 20-24, 2009.

Ann Holt
Sponsor: Dr. Julie Ivey

"How Does Exposure to Disabilities Affect College Sudent's Attitudes"
National Association of School of Psychology Annual Convention
Chicago, Illinois. March 2-6, 2010.

Megan Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Wade Rowatt

"Nonconscious Influences of Religion on Racial Prejudice: Two Priming Experiments"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Denver, Colorado. October 23-25, 2009.

Megan Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Wade Rowatt

"Shun the Non-believer: Priming Religion and Its Effects on Atheistic Prejudice"
Annual Conference for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Las Vegas, Nevada. January 28-31, 2010.

Shehzad Jooma
Sponsor: Dr. Gary Brooks

"Enhancing Men's Lives: Clinical and Research Approaches"
Annual Conference on Men and Masculinities
Atlanta, Georgia. March 25-28, 2010.

Jordan LaBouff
Sponsor: Dr. Wade Rowatt

Ecological Priming and a Low-Tech IAT:Do Churches Breed Prejudice?"
Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychological
Las Vegas, Nevada. January 27-31, 2010.

Sarah Martindale
Sponsor: Dr. Sarah Dolan

"PAI Profile of Female Domestic Violence Offenders"
Research Society on Alcoholism Conference
San Diego, California. June 20-24, 2009.

Religion

John Anderson
Sponsor: Dr. W. H. Bellinger

"A Trickster Oracle in Gen 25:23: reading Jacob and Esau between Beten and Bethel"
Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 21-24, 2009.

John Anderson
Sponsor: Dr. W. H. Bellinger

"Replaying the Fool: Esau vs. Jacob and YHWH in Genesis 32-33"
Southwest Commission of Religious Studies
Irving, Texas. March 13-14, 2010.

Ginny Brewer-Boydston
Sponsor: Dr. W. H. Bellinger

"Overbearing Mothers and Childhood Regression:
A Psychoanalytic Reading of Judges 4-5"
Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 21-24, 2009.

Ginny Brewer-Boydston
Sponsor: Dr. W. H. Bellinger

"Sarah the Proto-Queen Mother: A Comparison of the Use of 'Gevirah' for Sarah and the Queen Mothers of the Divided Monarchy"
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Atlanta, Georgia. May 23-26, 2010.

Timothy Brookins
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"Luke 18:35-43 as a Rhetorical Paraphrase of Mark 10:46-52"
Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 21-24, 2009.

Timothy Brookins
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"Elements of Stoic-Oriented Declamation in the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus"
Southwest Commission of Religious Studies
Dallas, Texas. March 13-15, 2010.

Richard Brumback
Sponsor: Dr. Daniel Williams

"Everything is Permissible: Ivan Karamazov and Genocide"
Southwest Commision on Religious Studies
Irving, Texas. March 13-14, 2010.

Richard Brumback
Sponsor: Dr. Daniel Williams

"The Authorship of the Epistula ad Diognetum and Characterizations of Judaism"
North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. May 27-29, 2010.

Kalvin Budiman
Sponsor: Dr. Daniel Williams

"The Law of Number and the Problem of Evil in Augustine's On Order"
Southwest Commission of Religious Studies
Irving, Texas. March 13-14, 2010.

Craig Clarkson
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"Edinburgh and 'The World': Reciprocal Influences
in the Development of International Ventures in Missionary Cooperation and Unity"
Southwest Commission of Religious Studies
Irving, Texas. March 13-14, 2010.

Brandon Frick
Sponsor: Dr. W.H. Bellinger

"The Inseparability of Creation and Covenant in the Book of Genesis"
Genesis and Christian Theology Conference
St. Andrews, Scotland. July 14-18, 2009.

Brandon Frick
Sponsor: Dr. W. H. Bellinger

"Covenantal Ecology: TheImplications of "Covenant" in the Book of Genesis"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Meeting
Norman, Oklahoma. March 12-14, 2010.

Roy Garton
Sponsor: Dr. W. H. Bellinger

"The Inseparability of Creation and Covenant in the Book of Genesis"
Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 21-24, 2009.

Roy Garton
Sponsor: Dr. James Nogalski

"Drought and Deceit: The Intertextuality
of Jeremiah 14:7-9, 19-22 and Exodus 17:1-7"
Southwestern Conference of Religious Studies Conference
Irving, Texas. March 13, 2010.

Eric Gilchrest
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"For the Wages of Sin is™Banishment?:
An Unexplored Substitutionary Motif in Lev 16 and the Day of Atonement"
Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 21-24, 2009.

Eric Gilchrest
Sponsor: Dr. Lidija Novakovic

"Reading the New Testament with Its Original Audiences:
A Methodological Proposal with Examples Drawn from John's Revelation"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Meeting
Dallas, Texas. March 12-14, 2010.

Heather Gorman
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"Kindling the Feelings: Persuasion of Emotions in Hebrews"
Stone Campbell Journal Conference
Cincinnati, Ohio. April 9-10, 2010.

Bracy Hill
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"James Peirce and his New Trinity: The Roles of Scripture, History, and Reason in the Reformulation of Dissent"
Winter National Meeting of the American Society of Church History
San Diego, California. January 7-10, 2010.

Bracy Hill
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"The Heritage of a Heretic: The Patriarchs of James Pierce"
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia. May 23-26, 2010.

W.G. Hulbert
Sponsor: Dr. W. H. Bellinger

"Seasick Fish and Fasting Cows: Words about God and Creation in the Book of Jonah"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Meeting
Irving, Texas. March 13-14, 2010.

W.G. Hulbert
Sponsor: Dr. James Nogalski

"Cornel West, Biblical Trasparency, and American Historical Amnesia"
Stone-Campbell Journal Conference
Cincinnati, Ohio. April 9-10, 2010.

Jangho Jo
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Harvey

"Genesis 50:20-21 and Overcoming Colonial Experience in Asia"
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia. May 23-26, 2010.

Jangho Jo
Sponsor: Dr. Daniel Williams

"De Civitate Dei I-X: Debunking Ciceronian 'Social Memory'"
North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. May 27-29, 2010.

Jim Keener
Sponsor: Dr. W. H. Bellinger

"De Doctrina Christiana and the Crisis of Biblical Theology:
Augustine's Hermeneutic and Brevard Child's Canonical Exegesis"
Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 21-24, 2009.

Courtney Lyons
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"Burning Columbia Avenue: Religious Undertones of the 1964 Philadelphia Race Riot"
American Society of Church History
January 7-10, 2010.

Courtney Lyons
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"'don't DON'T D-O-N-T': Antoine Brown Blackwell's Guide to Marriage"
Central Texas Colloquium on Religion
Austin, Texas. February 20, 2010.

Courtney Lyons
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"For God and for America:
Evangelical Support of the American Military during the Vietnam War"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Meeting
Irving, Texas. March 13-14, 2010.

Courtney Lyons
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"For God and for America: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Opposition to the Vietnam War"
Southwestern Historical Association Conference
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 4, 2010.

David Melvin
Sponsor: Dr. Joel Burnett

"Divine Mediation and the Rise of Civilization in Mesopotamian Literature,
Genesis 1-11, and Jewish Apocalyptic"
Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 21-24, 2009.

David Melvin
Sponsor: Dr. Joel Burnett

"'Why Does the Way of the Wicked Prosper?'
Divine and Human Suffering in Jeremiah 11:18-12:13 and the Problem of Evil"
Annual Meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society
Azusa, California. March 4-6, 2010.

John Moore
Sponsor: Dr. James Barcus

"Blood and Thunder: Penny Dreadfuls and the Novels of G.K. Chesterton"
Annual CS Lewis and Inklings Society Conference
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. April 9-10, 2010.

Matt Moser
Sponsor: Dr. Ralph Wood

"Open Heavens but Greedy Graves: The Prayer of Healing
and the Problem of Suffering in Modern Charismatic Churches"
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
Montreal, Canada. November 6-9, 2009.

Alicia Myers
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Talbert

"Prosopoetics and Conflict: Speech and Expectations in John 8"
Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 21-24, 2009.

Christopher Rios
Sponsor: Dr. Laine Scales

"Building Intellectual Community: The Graduate Student Imperative"
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
Montreal, Canada. November 7-9, 2009.

Scott Rushing
Sponsor: Dr. Daniel Williams

"In Defense of Theodoret: Nicaea in the Historia Ecclesiastica"
Pappas Patristic Institute Annual Meeting
Brookline, Massachusetts. March 11-13, 2010.

Brian Small
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"Scripture as Prosopopoeia in Hebrews"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Meeting
Irving, Texas. March 13-14, 2010.

Julien Smith
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Talbert

"The Characterization of the Christ as Ideal King in Ephesians"
Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 21-24, 2009.

Mihai Tarta
Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Marsh

"Competing Versions of Civil Religion Based on Latinism in Romania"
Annual MPSA Political Science Conference
Chicago, Illinois. April 22-25, 2010.

Delayne Vaughn
Sponsor: Dr. Jim Nogalski

"The Prophet in the Garden Path:
Preference Rules, Cognitive Narratology, and the Book of Jonah"
National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 21-24, 2009.

Will Williams
Sponsor: Paul Martens

"The Comic as Ethical Force in Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript"
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
Montreal, Canada. November 7-9, 2009.

David Wilmington
Sponsor: Barry Harvey

"From Slave Hound to Reedeming Martyr:
Frederick Douglass' Religious Political Language about Abraham Lincoln"
Society of Biblical Literature Conference
Montreal, Canada. November 6-10, 2009.

Nick Zola
Sponsor: Dr. Bruce Longenecker

"Tatian's Diatessaron and the Passion Chronology"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Meeting
Irving, Texas. March 13-14, 2010.

Sociology

Joseph Baker
Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Bader

"Personal Theology, Attitudes toward Institutional Science, and Political Ideology"
2009 Scientific Study of Religion Conference
Denver, Colorado. October 23-25, 2009

Katherine Ballew
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Public Cell Phone Usage and Its Affect on Interpersonal Relationships"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 3, 2010.

Paul Castronova
Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Bader

"Personality and Religious Experiences"
Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Denver, Colorado. October 22-25, 2009.

Phil Davignon
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality: Developing a Framework to Further the Debate"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 3, 2010.

Scott Draper
Sponsor: Jerry Park

"Religious Dilettantism and the Relationship Between Conventional and Unconventional Supernatural Beliefs"
2009 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Denver, Colorado. October 23-25, 2009.

Scott Draper
Sponsor: Dr. Jerry Park

"An Old Friend in a New Light: Reconceptualizing Delinquent Peer Association Through the Sociology of Emotions"
American Criminology Society Conference
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 4-7, 2009.

Jessica Farrar
Sponsor: Dr. Diana Kendall

"Morality: How Social Class, Religion and Perceived Economic Gain or Mobility Shape Moral Attitudes and Behavior"
Academic Meeting: American Sociological Association
San Francisco, California. August 8-11, 2009

Jessica Farrar
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Community Charicteristics and Volunteerism"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 3, 2010.

Shanna Ganstra
Sponsor: Dr. Jerry Park

"To Hell with Spanking: The Relationship between Corporal Punishment and Belief in Religious Evil"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Conference
Denver, Colorado. October 23-25, 2009.

Anna Garland
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"The Determinants of Neighborhood Association Membership:
Fear, Friendship, and Racial Diversity"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 3, 2010.

Alessandra Gonzalez
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Froese

"Social Deviance in a Majority Muslim Context"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Conference
Denver, Colorado. October 22-25, 2009.

Alessandra Gonzalez
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Froese

"Social Capital of Mosque Networks in Majority Muslim Countries"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 3, 2010.

Austin Hand
Sponsor: Dr. James Stamey

"Bayesian Sample-Size Determination
for the Comparison of Two Poisson Rates"
International Biometric Society/Eastern North American Region (ENAR) with Participating Societies
New Orleans, Louisiana. March 21-24, 2010.

Wes Hinze
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Performance Indicators in Complex Organizations"
AACS Annual Meeting
San Antonio, Texas. October 8-10, 2009.

Wes Hinze
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Self-Employed and Paid Employee Earnings in Three Southern States:
A Multilevel Model"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 3, 2010.

Wes Hinze
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"List-Asisted RDD Telephone Surveys in Rural Areas: Central Texas"
AAPOR Annual Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. May 13-16, 2010.

Jeniece Lusk
Sponsor: Dr. Carson Mencken

"Resisting Change: Maintaining Cultural Identity
Pennsylvania Sociological Society Conference
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. October 22-24, 2009.

Debbie McMahon
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"The Decision to Offend: Examining the Influence of Religiosity on Juvenile Crime"
Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology 2009 Conference
San Antonio, Texas. October 8-10, 2009.

Debbie McMahon
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Tolbert

"List Assisted RDD Telephone Surveys in Rural Areas: Central Texas"
American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference
Chicago, Illinois. May 13-16, 2010.

Brandon Moore
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"The Problem of Poverty"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 3, 2010.

Andy Pagel
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"The Virtual Society and Mental Life: Applying Simmel to Online Social Interaction"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 3, 2010.

Ashley Palmer-Boyes
Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Bader

"An IR Approach to Delinquent Peers"
American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 4-7, 2009.

Casey Pederson
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"From Many to One"
Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology 2009 Conference
San Antonio, Texas. October 7-10, 2009.

Casey Pederson
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Transportation, Migration, and Community Involvement"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Houston, Texas. March 31-April 3, 2010.

Jeremy Rhodes
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Dougherty

"Power Within Congregations: Toward a Conditional Resource-Dependency Theory"
2009 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Denver, Colorado. October 23-25, 2009.

Samuel Stroope
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Froese

"Friends at Church: Religious Participation and Identification"
The Association for Sociology
San Francisco, California. August 8-10, 2009.

Andrew Whitehead
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Dougherty

"A Place to Belong: Small Groups in Big Churches"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting
Denver, Colorado. October 23-25, 2009.

Andrew Whitehead
Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Bader

"Sexual Attitudes and Socialization"
Midwest Sociological Society/North Central Sociological Society
Chicago, Illinois. March 31-April 3, 2010.

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Sports Management

Morgan Mercer
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Peterson

"An Analysis of College Choice Factors by Freshmen Student-Athletes Across All Sports"
College Sport Research Institute's 2010 Scholarly Conference
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 21-23, 2010.

Erik Bengston
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Peterson

"Building Campus Community via Collegiate Football:
The Impact of Campus Resident Status on Game Attendance"
College Sport Research Institute's 2010 Scholarly Conference
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 21-23, 2010.

Statistical Science

Daniel Beavers
Sponsor: Dr. James Stamey

"Bayesian Estimation of Probabilities from Repeated Binary Diagnostic Tests"
2009 Southern Regional Council on Statistics
Jekyll Island, Georgia. June 7-10, 2009.

Monica Bennett
Sponsor: Dr. John Seaman

"Multilevel Poisson Regression with Underreported Data"
Eastern North American Region Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana. March 21, 2010.

Denka Markova
Sponsor: Dr. Jack Tubbs

"Confidence Interval for the Odds Ratio Using Double Sampling"
Joint Statistical Meeting
Washington, DC. August 1-6, 2009.

MaryAnn Morgan-Cox
Sponsor: Dr. Jack Tubbs

"High BMI Among Pre-School Children in South Texas"
Southern Research Council on Statistics Summer Meeting
Jekyll Island, Georgia. June 7-10, 2009.

MaryAnn Morgan-Cox
Sponsor: Dr. Jack Tubbs

"High BMI Among Pre-school Children in South Texas"
Southern Research Council on Statistcs Summer Meeting
Jekyll Island, Georgia. June 7 - 10, 2009.

Linda Nojh
Sponsor: Dr. Jack Tubbs

"Modeling Uncertainty in Daily Asset Returns using ARCH/GARCH Models"
Joint Statistical Meeting
Washington, DC. August 1-6, 2009.

Jessica Pruszynski
Sponsor: Dr. Jack Tubbs

"Bayesian Inference for Censored Binomial Sampling"
Eastern North American Region Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana. March 21-24, 2010.

John Seaman
Sponsor: Dr. James Stamey

"Dangers of Transforming 'Non-Informative' Prior Distributions"
2009 Joint Statistical Meeting
Washington, DC. August 1-6, 2009.

John Seaman
Sponsor: Dr. John Seaman

"A Bayesian Approach to Multilevel Poisson Regression with Misclassification"
Eastern North American Region Statistical Meetings
New Orleans, Louisiana. March 21-24, 2010.

Eileen Stock
Sponsor: Dr. Dean Young

"Confidence Intervals for the Difference in TPRs and FPRs
of Two Diagnostic Tests with Unverified Negatives"
Eastern North American Region Spring Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana. March 21-24, 2010.

Sydeaka Watson
Sponsor: Dr. John Seaman

"Relative Breadth of Mosaic and Con-S HIV-1 Vaccine Design Strategies"
International Biometric Society/Eastern North American Region (ENAR) with Participating Societies
New Orleans, Louisiana. March 21-24, 2010.

Theatre Arts

Dan Buck
Sponsor: Dr. Deanna Toten Beard

"A Syllabus for Spontaneity: A Survey of Current Improv Pedagogies"
Mid-American Theatre Conference
Cleveland, Ohio. March 4-7, 2010.

David Reed
Sponsor: Dr. Deanna Toten Beard

"You Can Fly, I can Watch: A Directorial Analysis of Flight in Cirque de Soleil"
Mid-American Theatre Conference
Cleveland, Ohio. March 4-7, 2010.

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